ANTARCTIC CONTINENT.

Grey River Argus, 2 September 1927, Page 5

ANTARCTIC CONTINENT.

Is It a Myth? (Rcc< ived Sept. 1 at 8.50 p.m.) I.ON DON, August 31. That belief in the existence of an Antarctic Continent was still based on circunist: utial evidence was a view stressed by Dr Rudmase Brown (President of th - Goorgraphical Section of the British Association) in an address at the 96th co; ference. He declared that Indely Lend, the one certain land, had three thousand miles of only hypothetical coastline. Its coast had not seriously been searched for since the land’s discover in 1931. No ship had vet penetrated the western shores of ‘Weddell Sea. A great gap remained betwon Charcot and Edwards Land, which latter was still unexplored. The costly nature of the exploration of this area rendered all efforts to carry it out unlikely on the part of impoverished Europe. The necessary funds will not be available for years. Hencs Europe looked to the great men of the nations of the Southern Hempisphere to carry out the work.